Navigation tools

- [Instructor] The Composer navigation tools can be foundunder the Home tab over on my right hand side.I have a number of navigation tools I can use heresuch as Rotate, Pan, Zoom, and so forth.But that being said, I almost never use thesenavigation tools because the same tools are actuallyalso available right within my mouse gestures.So, for example, if I want to zoom in and out,I can do that just by scrolling on my mouse scroll wheel.

If I want to rotate, I can just push downon my mouse scroll wheel and move my mouse slightly.And if I want to pan, I can just do the same thingwhile holding the Control key here.In addition to that, if I want to zoom to fit,I can just double click off, anywhere off in space.And these are the navigation toolsthat I use most frequently.So I very rarely jump over to the navigation panelto run through navigation tools here.

Now, that being said, if you also want to customizeyour own mouse gestures, you can do that as well.I can do this just by jumping intothe File dropdown, and go into Preferences,and from here if I jump into Navigation,I can customize any of the mouse gestures as I may see fit.Now that being said, I actually like the Composer defaults,so I'm just going to hit OK.

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1/31/2018

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